Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening selection was programmed as Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Mr. Berman quickly informed his audience that it did not cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart...
...Organ Grinder showed a lonely street beneath an "El" station, with a solitary cyclist pedaling between the strangely elongated shapes of an empty city. Among Radulovic's most successful combinations of abstract forms with recognizable objects: Anesthesia, a big oil of grey, white and blue in which the surgical team is seen in triplicate by the almost anesthetized patient, and the last moment of consciousness is represented by a spiral nebula of whites and blues...
...broadened the understanding of his own field by many contributions explaining the interplay of science and society. His newest work, Benjamin Franklin is one of the "Makers of the American Tradition Series." And recently, on the retirement of George Sarton, he took over as chairman of Isis, the organ of the History of Science school...
...invitation to participate. The eligible in question was peremptorily denied an opportunity to prove his ability to work honestly for the Review. You suggest that the eligible's own testimony before a public board of inquiry is sufficiently condemnatory to preclude the possibility of honest effort for the organ. Verdict before trial may be an incident of some legal system you espouse; fortunately, it is foreign...
...Review is not a social organization where membership is subject to private whim. It is a board composed of the professionally superlative. To deny membership for personal reasons has no place in the scope of its work. It is inescapable as the reductio ad absurdum of such a proposition that the academically inferior five percent will inherit the organ through denial of privilege to those who earned the invitation and the opportunity to prove themselves...